Venezuelan Opposition Legislator Decries MUD “Hidden Agenda”, Expelled Hours Later [View all]

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By EWAN ROBERTSON
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Mérida, 7th September 2012 (Veneuelanalysis.com) – Opposition legislator William Ojeda yesterday criticised a “hidden agenda” of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition. He was expelled from his political party a few hours later.

In an unexpected press conference yesterday, the national assembly legislator for the opposition party A New Time (UNT) charged the MUD with developing a neoliberal economic package behind closed doors, to be implemented if opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski won the October 7 presidential election.

“Democrats in Venezuela don’t accept hidden agendas…or neoliberal obsessions,” he declared.

Ojeda was referring to an MUD economic policy document leaked to press two weeks ago, which advocates the deregulation of banks, opening up the economy to more private investment, and the reduction of state funding for public services and communal council projects.

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